Molly Worthen (born 1981) is an American writer and journalist. Her first book, The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost, a biography of American diplomat and Yale professor Charles Hill, was published in February 2006 to excellent reviews from the Boston Globe and Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times. Raised in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, she graduated from Yale in 2003 and earned a Ph.D. in American religious history there in 2011. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Time, the Boston Globe, The New Republic, the Dallas Morning News, and the Toledo Blade.
Extract from The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost in the Yale Alumni Magazine: Man & Myth at Yale
Kakutani's review in the New York Times: From Student and Teacher to Biographer and Subject
From the New York Times Magazine: Onward Christian Scholars
From the New York Times Magazine: Who Would Jesus Smack Down?
From Christianity Today: Reformer
From Church History: Chalcedon problem: Rousas John Rushdoony and the origins of Christian reconstructionism